Glory

Glory was a large scale immersive dance event that celebrated the city’s rich Commonwealth community and Glasgow 2014. A cast of over 30 Glasgow people with connections to a Commonwealth country came together from January ’till March to create a dance performance based on each person’s individual movement vocabulary. Audiences were invited into the performers arena to experience rituals and preparation for performance. By exposing the audience to the beauty found in bodies of varying age, ability, levels of experience, body type and ethnicities, Glory celebrated the diversity of the human body, giving the audience new ways to think about movement, excellence, and about who and what is considered elite.

Glory considered where and what is home, the journey’s we have made to get here, the borders and boundaries of cultures and communities and what it means to live under one roof.

As a long term collaborator with Janice Parker my involvement here was as co-director and designer. I also physically built much of the installation within which the performance took place and which the performers physically manipulated and interacted with.

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